Posted on 09/09/2024 9:42:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
In 2003 and 2004, ESAG, in collaboration with Greek authorities, conducted a geophysical survey around Paleoekklisies Hill to identify traces of buried ancient buildings. In 2006, they received a permit to dig in the area of their survey that seemed to have the greatest potential. The team uncovered ancient building material, houses, and graves; however, they were from the wrong time period. There was a long history of settlement on Paleoekklisies Hill dating back to the third millennium b.c. In fact, in the second millennium b.c., the site appears to have been called Amarynthos. A clay tablet found in the ancient city of Thebes that is inscribed in the Bronze Age Linear B script seems to identify the site as a-ma-ru-to, an earlier form of Amarynthos...
The first major discovery came in the form of a seemingly pedestrian artifact—a simple terracotta roof tile... they are commonplace. This one, however, was not. As archaeologists cleaned the dirt-caked tile, they noticed it was stamped with a tantalizing word—Artemidos, meaning "of or belonging to Artemis" in ancient Greek...
Shortly thereafter, as they were excavating a shallow well nearby, they came across a staircase. The stairs leading to the bottom of the well had been constructed during the second century a.d. using ancient stelas and statue bases that had once stood nearby. Some of these contained dedicatory inscriptions to Artemis, Apollo, and Leto. One stela bore a decree announcing a political union between Eretria and the neighboring city of Styra. The last line of the inscription explicitly stated that the stela displaying the agreement was to be erected in a particular place—the Sanctuary of Artemis at Amarynthos.
(Excerpt) Read more at archaeology.org ...
It was the end of an eretria.
😁........................
Long live Artemis!
"Dear Leto: One more job ought to get it,
One last shot and we quit it,
One more for the road!" - Boz Scaggsius
When you need something from a god you butter up the mum first.
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